Most of them are toys, absolutely unusable for any high quality listening experience. A friend of mine has his own station, where he transmits without any dynamic compression usually found on 99% commercial FM broadcast and I think it would be nice to have such receiver to fully enjoy the dynamic range.

DSP might be the right choice, but the best SNR offered in DSP-enabled receivers is 60dB

Any idea on such receiver (other than I'm just a crazy guy trying to achieve impossible parameters )?

So you want performance equivalent to the higher end of hi-fi FM tuners, but it has to be portable and run off a couple of AA cells? Oh, and it has to tune lower in frequency than a standard tuner. Nothing too special, then.

I bought one of these about 15 years ago and never regretted it. Covers 76 to 108 MHz on FM, 300 kHz to 30 MHz AM, has a synchronous AM detector and will receive SSB without any problem (although it's a bit wider than the typical Ham transceiver).

On the FM side the internal speaker is adequate for mono listening, plug in a pair of headphones and in stereo it's as good as any Walkman.

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